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Gobby

What is it?

Gobby is a collaborative editor. It means that different users can edit the same file at the same time in real time. Every user sees in real time what the other users are typing, character by character. So it is especially useful when users edit simultaneously (or in a short period of time) the same lines (for example a LaTeX document), because there won't be any conflict or merge difficulties that you would have with a version-control system like SVN or GIT. But it is not incompatible with it, and it is still recommended to regularly commit the document under a version-control system in order to have backups and history.

Moreover starting from version 0.5 (more precisely development build 0.4.92), Gobby has undo feature! So there is no reason anymore not to use it.

Installation

Gobby 0.5 is still in development, so you'll have to compile it manually.